As the field of algorithmic economics has matured, various conferences, workshops, and symposia have sprung up to accommodate the burgeoning interest. Only one type of meeting known to science is still missing: a summer school.
Fortunately, this oversight is about to be corrected. Tim Roughgarden and I are organizing a summer school on algorithmic economics, to take place at Carnegie Mellon University on August 6-10, 2012. We are targeting current or soon-to-be graduate students (computer scientists and social scientists). We will select roughly 50 students to attend the summer school. All US-based students who are selected will receive full financial support; students based outside the US may apply provided they have their own funding. The application deadline is April 15.
For details about the summer school, including the list of confirmed speakers and the specifics of the (almost painless) application process, please see the summer school’s website.
UPDATE: It turns out that we are simply continuing a proud tradition of summer schools that started in ancient times with this one and continued with this one.
A very successful summer school was organized at Fudan University two years ago:
http://www.tcs.fudan.edu.cn/game10/
Thanks Nina, I updated the post.
I was also a bit surprised at this statement of it being still missing, there have been other examples as well. I believe Tim Roughgarden even lectured in one. Perhaps they don’t count because they didn’t take place in the North American Center of the World?
Indeed, for the last several years there have been a few summer/winter school organized every year. Aarhus, CWI, Fudan, Italy, … lots of them. But not too many in the US.
Hold on, there were *workshops* in Aarhus, CWI, and Bertinoro. I’m drawing a distinction between a summer school, which focuses on educating students via mini-courses, and a workshop, which primarily targets more senior researchers and includes many short talks. Perhaps it’s an issue of terminology. In response to “Winter”, the Fudan event definitely counts as a summer school, even though it wasn’t held in North America 🙂 If I am missing additional *summer schools*, URLs would help.
I was thinking in particular of this one, though I must admit the scope there was wider: http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/conference/adfocs09/
The one next year was on similar topics: http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/conference/adfocs10/
Of course, Fudan is a better example.
There was a summer school on Game Theory in Computer Science at Aarhus in 2006
http://www.informs.org/Attend-a-Conference/Conference-Calendar/Summer-School-on-Game-Theory-in-Computer-Science
Wow, that’s a serious blast from the past. And Tim did speak there! I updated the post.
Wow, that’s a serious blast from the past. And Tim did speak there! I updated the post.
Ariel,
Why is there only financial support available for US-based students? Is this because of the NSF funding?
Thanks,
Sven
Yes, exactly (ARL funding is also restricted to US-based students).
Dear Professor Procaccia,
Seems like this “summer” there will be a lot of opportunities for students interested on Algorithmic Economics/Autonomous Agents. Besides this nice summer school, I am also aware of a summer school at Trento on Market Design, with Professors Sandholm, Crampton, Muthukrishnan and others, and another one at Beijing, on Artificial Intelligence and Multiagent Systems. Is great there are so many opportunities. Links are below:
http://www-ceel.economia.unitn.it/summer_school/thirteenth/index.html
http://www.ijcaisummerschool.org/
Josué